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My Man Jeeves
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First published in UK: May, 1919 by George Newnes, Limited, London
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Leave it to Jeeves
Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest
Jeeves and the Hard Boiled Egg
Absent Treatment
Helping Freddie
Rallying Round Old George
Doing Clarence a Bit of Good
The Aunt and the Sluggard
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Leave it to Jeeves
1916-06 Strand (UK)

Characters

Bertie Wooster — Narrator visiting New York City and bothered by suits
Jeeves — Bertie's valet whose taste in clothes is infallible. He was once in the service of the financier Digby Thistleton, now Lord Bridgnorth.
Monty Byng — Bertie's friend who had a checkered suit admired by Bertie
(Corky) Bruce Corcoran — Bertie's friend who wants to be a portrait painter but turns into a comicstrip artist
Alexander Worple — Corky's rich 51 year old uncle in the jute business whose hobby is ornithology
Muriel Singer — Corky's fiancee who is a chorus girl and finally marries Worple
Sam Patterson — Impecunious author who ghosts a children's book of birds

Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest
1916-12-09 Saturday Evening Post (US)
1917-03 Strand (UK)

Characters

Bertie Wooster — Narrator who has to keep Wilmot in his apartment for a month
Jeeves — Dislikes Bertie's cloth-topped boots, a pink tie and his Country Gentleman Hat
Lady Malvern — Aunt Agatha's friend who writes about society and conditions in prisons in America
Wilmot, Lord Pershore — 23 year old son of Lady Malvern who lives a sheltered life in Much Middlefold, Shropshire. Lives it up a bit too freely in New York and spends some time in jail
Rollo — Wilmot's newly acquired bull-terrier
Rocky Todd — Bertie's friend on Long Island

Jeeves and the Hard Boiled Egg
1917-03-03 Saturday Evening Post (US)
1917-08 Strand (UK)

Characters

Bertie Wooster — Narrator
Jeeves — Objects to Bertie's moustache. Has an aunt who paid for a movie star to visit her home.
(Bicky) Francis Bickersteth — Impecunious English youth to whom Bertie lends his apartment
Duke of Chiswick — Bicky's wealthy uncle

Absent Treatment
1911-03 Strand (UK)
1911-08-26 Colliers (US)

Characters

Reggie Pepper — A drone who inherited money from his Uncle Edward, a Collier. Narrator.
Bobbie Cardew — Fellow drone with a horrible memory
Mary Anthony — Hospital nurse with red-gold hair who married Bobbie

Helping Freddie
1911-09 Strand (UK)

Characters

Reggie Pepper — Narrator who goes to Marvis Bay, Dorsetshire
Freddie Meadowes — Reggie's friend who loves Angela
Jimmy Pinkerton — Reggie's playwright friend who gets Tootles to say "Kiss Freddie" to Angela
Angela West — Engaged to Freddie
Tootles Medwin — Little boy whose parents have the mumps

Rallying Round Old George
1912-12 Strand (UK)

Characters

Reggie Pepper — Narrator and forerunner of Bertie Wooster
George Lattaker — Reggie's friend posing as Alfred, his non-existant twin brother
Harold Voules — Reggie's valet who was engaged to Pilbeam
Mrs. Vanderley — Stella's mother
Stella Vanderley — Engaged to George
Emma Pilbeam — Mrs. Vanderiey's maid
Uncle Augustus Arbutt — George's uncle who gambled away his trust fund
Mr. Marshall — Owner of the yacht Circe which carried the party to Monte Carlo
Prince of Saxburg-Liegnitz — Assaulted by muggers and saved by George
Denman Sturgis — Private investigator
Count Fritz von Coslin — Equerry to the Prince

Doing Clarence a Bit of Good
1913-05 Strand (UK)

Characters

Reggie Pepper — Narrator who loved Elizabeth and was engaged to her
Elizabeth Schoolbred Yeardsley — Clarence's wife who wants Reggie to steal The Venus
Bill Schoolbred — Reggie's chum at Oxford
Clarence Yeardsley — An artist who married Elizabeth
Mr. Mathew Yeardsley — Clarence's father and an amateur painter who gave his picture, The Venus, to Clarence and Elizabeth but wants it back

The Aunt and the Sluggard
1916-04-22 Saturday Evening Post (US)
1916-08 Strand (UK)

Characters

Bertie Wooster — Narrator
Jeeves — Has an aunt who likes riding in cabs. Writes all about New York City's night life for Rocky to send to his aunt.
Rockmetteller Todd — Poet friend of Bertie's who lives a quiet life on Long Island and hates New York City
Isabel Rockmetteller — Rocky's wealthy aunt who wants to live it up vicariously but learns her lesson from Jeeves
Jimmy Mundy — A reformer whose lecture cures Rocky's aunt

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